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- From: fcastro@tolten.puc.cl (Felipe Castro)
- Subject: Re: STACKER OR PC STORE OR ????????
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.050844.316@tolten.puc.cl>
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- Organization: Universidad Catolica de Chile
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 05:08:44 GMT
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- : >time. Hence, I am looking at on the fly compression products. I've heard a
- : >lot about STACKER but relatively nothing about the newcommer PC STORE (I
- :
- : DON'T SCREW WITH STACKER 2.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- : That SOB almost took out some vital info on my hard drive last semester, and
-
- Well, as long as you do not *screw* with Satcker 2.0, it should work
- just fine... :-)
- I still have never seen a stacker drive foul up on its own... but they
- do if you have a defective hard disk.
-
- Anyway, big drawback: Stacker will take a big chunk of memory on your
- machine (~ 50k)
-
- Big, nice plus: Have you noticed you can stack a floppy? A high density
- 3 1/2, formatted with Fdformat, and stacked (and lucky) will make up
- to... 3.4 megs. Nice.
-
- Oh, by the way... I have no info on PC Store :-)
- --
- Felipe Castro A.
- fcastro@tolten.puc.cl
-